alsothings
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Comment · 12 years ago
First thought: Why are there no references anywhere?
Second thought: Must be because it's so difficult to put links in a webpage.
Comment · 12 years ago
this was my first thought and it's driving me nuts. It's just a bunch of floating assertions.
Comment · 13 years ago
USB was defacto standard for data transfer, especially on PCs, but the /connector/ on the phone side was not at all standards compliant or uniform across makes and models, and up until the passage of that law, it wasn't uncommon for the power port to be separate. Now that is basically unheard of. I'm not saying the law is the only reason for this change, but it is clearly a big factor, yet it is omitted from this article.
Comment · 13 years ago
CANBUS +1. Would love to nudge the ardunio-ish end of the IoT community in that direction.
Comment · 13 years ago
I find it notable that this article entirely ignores the EU's Common Electrical Power Supply law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_External_Power_Supply), which effectively mandated that all smart phones sold in the EU use micro USB for power. This had a swift and noticeable effect in the diversity of connectors in phones (basically Apple is the only maker that doesn't use micro USB and this change happened at the exact time of the law). The emergence of USB as The Way Phones are Charged didn't happen as a magic emergent property, but via considered government regulation. Government: it can actually work.
Comment · 13 years ago
possible, I'm much less sure about my use of passed versus past here then the use of which instead of that in the title. That said, I had thought 'get' did not indicate motion across the sentence here 'passed' did, so passed is correct. But I could totally believe I'm doing it wrong.
Comment · 13 years ago
I thought you were right for a second, but I'm fairly certain that 'passed' is what I meant. It's the past tense of pass, and thus the correct word. see http://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/past_passed.h... for a good set of examples.
I appreciate that the which/that distinction is tricky, but one is a restrictive clause and the other is not, changing the meaning of the sentence.
Comment · 13 years ago
I cannot get passed the title. Unless the only cold emails the author sent were the ones that got the meetings, s/which/that.
(Actually I did read the article, and in it she says "cold emails produced 7 meetings at Twitter, Klout, LinkedIn", so either she sent 7 cold emails or the title should use 'that' not 'which')
Comment · 13 years ago
“The raw height data is stored in metres and must be scaled down to fit within the 256 block height limit in Minecraft. A maximum height of 2 500 metres was chosen, which means Ben Nevis, appears just over 128 blocks high.
“Although this exaggerates the real-world height, it preserves low-lying coastal features such as Bournemouth's cliffs, adding interest to the landscape.”
- http://www.pcgamesn.com/minecraft/ordnance-survey-recreate-g...
So they are keeping to the 256 block height, but being slightly creative with the vertical scale...
http://benfields.net